Dreaming in French : the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis / Alice Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Alice Yaeger.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994--Homes and haunts--France--Paris.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004--Homes and haunts--France--Paris.

Sontag, Susan.

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944---Homes and haunts--France--Paris.

Davis, Angela Y.

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.

Women--United States--Biography.

Women.

Intellectual life.

Students, Foreign.

United States.

France--Paris.

Students, Foreign--France--Paris--Biography.

Women--United States--Intellectual life.

United States--Civilization--French influences.

Civilization.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Summary:

A year in Paris ... since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women.

Contents:

Dream year

Jacqueline Bouvier: 1949-1950

Jacqueline Bouvier: the return

Susan Sontag: 1957-1958

Susan Sontag: the return

Angela Yvonne Davis: 1963-1964

Angela Davis: the return.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beerman fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780226424385

0226424383

OCLC:

733045213